lorn

Meaning

Adjective

• Doomed; lost.
• Abandoned, forlorn, lonely.

Origin

• From Middle English lorn, loren, ilorn, iloren (past participle of lese, lesen), from Old English loren, ġeloren, from Proto-Germanic *galuzanaz, *luzanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *leusaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewH-. See further at lese.